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Originally Posted by RockinKees
This is some nice fabwork!
You had to spending a few hours to think this over!
One small question: If you're down on power, can you still open the hood manually?
I mean if the actuator has crashed, battery is under the cab I assume.
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Thank you,
Yeah,
There is a manual disconnect.
Battery is under the floor passenger side.
If you look at the last picture in post #64, at the bottom below the lower
Pivot arm there is a knurled knob. On that linkage there is also a pin that
can be pulled ( after you release spring tension by twisting the knob counterclockwise)
that will allow manual opening of the hood. It's a little
heavy, but my wife can do it easily by herself.
When you lift manually, once it goes over center weight wise, it will fall to
the full open position. The springs on the limit rods catch it smoothly.
I did spend a lot of time figuring the linkage geometry of that lift actuator.
My calculations were pretty close though, so it didn't need to be reworked
too much after I tried it with scrap materials.